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It's not the government but a "concerned citizen" who has filed a PIL - Public Interest Litigation.

The Government has already asked Google Earth to mask/hide sensitive areas that Google has agreed to. Banning maps in India is pointless if the planning is done out of the country. And of course, there are always proxies and tunnels and of course the possibility of remotely controlling a PC in a country that does have access to a "blocked" site

Aside from a political map showing where India is in relation to other nations, and roughly where the major Indian cities are located, maps are useless in India.

The streets of Mumbai, Kalkut, and New Delhi are fucked up beyond belief. Many of them have evolved out of the slums, essentially. In some areas, the road network changes significantly within the course of a month, as garbage and human waste is moved around.

The roads aren't so much a way to efficiently get from one place to another, as they are a way to avoid stepping in feces and rubbish.

The title is misleading and sensationalist , anyone can file a petition, doesn't necessarily mean that the court will rule in their favor. Do not equate one person filing a petition to India deciding to ban Google maps.

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US, or, or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

So, 170 people die in a terrorist attack in a country of over 1 billion people. That's about .000017% of the population.

So, every time .000017% percent or more of the population die in some incident they should make it harder for the other 99.999983% of the population to plan such an incident.

They used duffel bags, guns, boats. Countless other things, they probably used computers and the Internet, as well as pencils and paper to help plan. Ironically, they probably didn't use any cameras, but just in case.

Lets ban all these for 99.999983% so it will be just a little bit harder to kill .000017% of the population. Maybe if they make it hard enough the terrorist wont even bother.

Fuck it, lets just all live in padded cells for the rest of our lives so no one will kill another person again!

India is banning maps, so why not ban other items that the terrorists use?

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They used duffel bags, guns, boats. Countless other things, they probably used computers and the Internet, as well as pencils and paper to help plan. Ironically, they probably didn't use any cameras, but just in case.

Lets ban all these for 99.999983% so it will be just a little bit harder to kill .000017% of the population. Maybe if they make it hard enough the terrorist wont even bother.

Fuck it, lets just all live in padded cells for the rest of our lives so no one will kill another person again!

Her rant is based upon an incorrect piece of data, namely, that India is banning maps, and is therefore, wrong and deserves to be downvoted.

I don't know where you got that I was talking about maps, considering I made no mention of it. Also, that my whole post was sarcastic too. But whatever, my post was based on the headline, which, with my 3rd grade reading level I was about to determine that someone in India suggested that banning google maps would be an worthwhile and effective way of deturing terrorist attacks.

This is a great idea ... and if they banned the high price hotels then there wouldn't have been
any targets, get rid of public transport and presumably the terrorists wouldn't have been
able to get to their task. And how about a wall along the lines of the item on the US / Mexican border ... THAT would have kept them out.

I don't believe that Google should be censoring anything out of its maps at all. Security through obscurity is a known risk. It is far better to be forced to design security properly, whether in the digital realm or the real one, than to allow yourself to be deluded into thinking that hiding information is a form of security. It is, but only by the same light that a sign reading "Please don't bomb us" is.

I love how they always blame maps and gps for stuff like this...as though that's the only way these people could ever have known the layout of the city so well.

Did it occur to them that perhaps the gunmen walked around the city/buildings to case them first? Much more effective than an overhead map. And there'd be no reason not to; it's not like they were wearing their I'm a Terrorist tshirts.

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as South Africa and The Iraq everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help The Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.

I remember few years ago, I heard about a mapping situation in India: during a long time, and until recently, maps have been kept secret, only accessible by government, and few areas of India still work this way.

Can someone confirm this? or explain the map information, with a historic point of view, in India?

I've heard this from a friend travelling in China, the taxi drivers there are awful at reading tourist maps.

And to be perfectly honest, that's the way I'd want to roll if I ever were an god given emperor to a country the size of China/India/Russia. What people really needs to know is which road leads to the four nearest cities, and that the central government requires some of their best&brightest for imperial training each year in exchange for taxes and military duty.

For an emperor, nothing is more scary than 500million peasants marching in the SAME direction if there's revolution to be had.

That would have been clever, if it weren't for the fact that a person would never refer to themselves with "this is" instead of "I am". I won't bother coming up with a counter-insult, because I consider it bad form if the other person is barely capable of grasping its meaning.